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  01 Apr 2018 - 16:13 Image used for representation. By Mari-Jane Williams | The Washington Post Bedtime is such a chore for parents that there's a book with a profanity-laced title devoted to the subject. Behavior that seemed cute at 8 a.m. is anything but when everyone is exhausted and the good-nights are stretching into the second hour. Why do kids choose the...

  01 Apr 2018 - 11:23 The participants at the HBKU’s first-ever PhD thesis defence session. The Peninsula DOHA: A new milestone in the two decades of Qatar Foundation (QF) for Education, Science and Community Development history was achieved when Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s (HBKU) College of Science and Engineering (CSE) hosted Education City’s first-ever PhD thesis defence session. The momentous event comes ahead of...

  01 Apr 2018 - 11:30 Al Kawthar Multi-Services Center School was established by QC in 2012. The Peninsula DOHA: More than a thousand students, both male and female, graduated at Al Kawthar Multi-Services Center School over the past five years in Indonesia. The school established by Qatar Charity in 2012, now has more than 600 students, more than 200 of whom graduate each...

  01 Apr 2018 - 11:46 The Peninsula DOHA: The Qatar Financial Centre (QFC), one of the world’s leading and fastest-growing onshore business and financial centres, observed World Planting Day at Msheireb Downtown Doha recently. This initiative falls under Busmah, QFC’s employee engagement programme. Volunteers from all QFC entities were very eager to contribute to a greener, healthier community as they planted vegetables in...

  01 Apr 2018 - 12:06 The Peninsula DOHA: Bedaya Center for Entrepreneurship and Career Development (Bedaya Center), a joint initiative by Qatar Development Bank and Silatech, is taking part in the first edition of Qatar Self Sufficiency Exhibition (QSSE 2018), which will be held from today till April 3 at the Doha Exhibition & Convention Center (DECC). During the event, a task force...

  01 Apr 2018 - 12:11 The faculty and alumni of the Foundation Program during the celebrations to mark its 10th anniversary. The Peninsula DOHA: Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar (WCM-Q) has celebrated the 10th anniversary of its Foundation Program, designed to help students achieve success in its medical programme. The Foundation Program was launched by WCM-Q in 2007, specifically to develop the skills of...

  01 Apr 2018 - 12:49 Image used for representation. QNA Doha: Qatar Calendar House announced that five planets in our solar system (Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, Mercury and Venus) will be visible in the Doha sky during April. Each planet will reach the nearest point to the moon in different times of the month. Astronomer at the Qatari Calendar House Dr. Bashir Marzouk said that Jupiter,...

  13 Mar 2018 - 11:59 Dr. Abdullatif Al Khal (second right), Deputy Chief Medical Officer and Director of Medical Education, with officials from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education during the annual conference. The Peninsula DOHA: Hamad Medical Corporation’s (HMC) commitment to patient care and safety and graduate medical education was acknowledged during an award ceremony recently by honouring Dr....

  25 Mar 2018 - 16:02 By Anisha Bijukumar | The Peninsula Online Doha: At the inauguration ceremony of the second National Health Strategy, Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani also launched a patient portal at Qatar National Convention Center. The patient portal myhealth.qa gives patients of Hamad Medical Corporation the access to their key health...

  25 Mar 2018 - 19:58 File Photo. Reuters The Peninsula Online Doha: The US central command has denounced fake news reports and rumours floating in some section of the media that they are shifting airbases from Qatar and Turkey. The US command said that the reports by some media outlets in the blockading countries are “false” and without any “merit” “The US is not...

  30 Mar 2018 - 19:13 International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach attends a news conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, June 3, 2016 (Reuters / Denis Balibouse) Associated Press PYONGYANG, North Korea:  International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach met with Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang on Friday and said the North Korean leader is committed to having his country participate in the 2020 Tokyo...

  30 Mar 2018 - 18:56 Australia's Mack Horton competing in a heat of the men's 1500m freestyle during the swimming competition at the 2017 FINA World Championships in Budapest, on July 29, 2017. AFP / François-Xavier Marit AFP Gold Coast, Australia:  Olympic champion Mack Horton's Commonwealth Games preparations have been rudely interrupted by an angry bee which stung the Aussie swimmer during...

  30 Mar 2018 - 19:20 By Adem Salvarcioglu & Omer Faruk Yildiz / Anadolu KUALA LUMPUR:  A football team formed in Malaysia by Rohingya who fled nearby Myanmar is working to raise their international profile and show what Rohingya can do when not suffering from oppression. Rakhine Muslims who escaped ethnic cleansing and massacres in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state to find refuge...

  29 Mar 2018 - 20:09 The hotel was the brainchild of Ahmad Taher, a 24-year-old veterinary student and feline fan. Here, he plays with a cat in a cat hotel in Basra, Iraq, March 13, 2018. Reuters/Essam Al-Sudani AFP Basra, Iraq:  Cats in Iraq's southern city of Basra are purring with delight as the country's first feline hotel opens for guests. In a...